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School plotters often are bullied, suffer from depression
Students who were making plans to attack schools showed the same types of troubled histories as those who carried them out. The study by the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center is a twist on the study of school shootings. It's a companion report to its study in 2019 on student attackers, the most comprehensive analysis of school shootings since the 1999 Columbine High School killings. One-third conducted research into previous school shootings, like the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in Newtown, Connecticut, where 27 people, mostly first-graders, were killed. Ad“First and foremost, targeted violence is preventable if communities can identify warning signs and intervene,” Driscoll said.